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Herbert E. Bolton: His Guide in the Making
be founded at La Crosse, Wisconsin. He thanked a Mr. Baldwin but
declined. They approached him again in November; this time one of
the regents, a Mr. Morris, wrote. Again, Herbert professed noninterest,
emphasizing his commitment to the Carnegie people and, even more,
his great enthusiasm for his field of historical research, something
which would mix not at all with administrative preoccupations." He
told Frederick that he had a long conference with President Houston,
while passing through Austin during the Christmas season, and that
he had decided to stay at Texas. Houston had indicated both promo-
tion and a sizable salary boost on his return to the University. In June,
1908, the Regents moved him up to associate professor and pegged
his nine-month salary at $2,400. He confessed that shortly before Christ-
mas he had seriously debated moving the family back to Austin, to
get out of the "contagion zone"; but he had later abandoned this
idea."'
The first six months of 19o8 found him busy in the various archives
of the capital. He was already tinkering with the possible mechanical
set-up of the Guide; and Jameson was likewise discussing such matters
in their correspondence, sending on samples already agreed upon for
the Andrews-Davenport volume. Among other bits of business, Jame-
son in a long letter of April 14 took time to laud Bolton's work and
compliment him on its care and thoroughness:
The fact is that you are turning up so many remarkable things in this
virgin field that the "Review" cannot attempt to deal with more than a
small fraction of them. Indeed, you will be giving work, for a long period,
to all available agencies. Your Guide is more likely than any other so far
constructed to give a great impulse to historical production in the United
States ....
I do not think that you can be very generous in helping others to the
results of your researches, in advance of their publication, without retard-
ing the preparation and issue of the book. I think that you would have a
solid ground, in the interest of the majority, in declining to postpone
their interests to that of one man, unless in quite exceptional cases, like
that of Mr. Richman. If you refer inquiries to me, I shall delay them on
that ground ....
I am afraid that in answering your letters one by one, as they come, I
never rise above details enough to express my general sense of admiration
for the manner in which you are preparing the Guide and my appreciation
of the excellent and helpful quality of your reports, which I feel enable
me to always know pretty well what you are doing . ...
"3These letters are in the November-December "Bolton Correspondence: OUT."
"Bolton to F. E. Bolton, June 27, 19o8.
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